How Childhood Trauma and Abuse Affects Adult Relationships, Relationships Made Easy Podcast

How Childhood Trauma and Abuse Affects Adult Relationships, Relationships Made Easy Podcast with Dr. Abby Medcalf, Episode 190 / Everything from your sex life, to troubles with your boss at work, to your ability to trust and be open with your partner can be affected by abuse or trauma from your childhood. The good news is that the challenges you face today don’t have to be permanent! Today I’m breaking down what childhood abuse includes (you’d be amazed how many people I’ve worked with don’t even realize that what happened to them as a kid is actually some type of abuse or trauma), how childhood trauma affects adult relationships, and as always, some resources to get the help you need.

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[valeriefacciolla]

This is so me!!!! Sexual abuse as a child, I have been told I'm the queen of control, and not nicely, by my family. I know I have issues and I'm bi polar as a result of the abuse, I think. I've saved this podcast and will hopefully share it with a few members soon. You're the best. Love Val 💞

[OriginalFootprintz]

You know what? Dr Medcalf… At first I thought too much preamble, get to the point pleeze!! I am so glad I quieted that mind and persevered. Your honesty, openness and attention to specific details is really refreshing… Thank You very much… I got tons of value… Appreciated….

[greatemeraldgoat]

@48:16 It is quite painful how many things I found relatable. I have wanted so dearly to heal. The first step is finding the wound I suppose.

[rodfrancis]

I avoid relationships all together as I cannot deal with the emotions and become very unbalanced...

[jaimesnell]

I was hyper aroused I was going through in and out of foster care the years. Years later when I found myself having to live under someone else's roof. I felt like I was stepping on eggshells, even though they had never giving me any true reason to feel this way. But the problem is that they never communicated when they were unhappy at all, so I was over sensitive to them.
This is something that I recently had to deal with but I never thought I did.

[greatemeraldgoat]

Thank you for making this highly informative content.

[tandlakarelisagradeen]

So informational, varm and inspirational ❤. Thank you! From Sweden with love 🇸🇪

[Queenie-the-genie]

I'm listening... it's almost midnight.... I was severely beaten as a child... I have been in therapy in the past but it's expensive...it comes up for me a lot. Today has been pretty bad but there is nowhere to go with it. I am 79.

[deborahengland]

Good evening, Abby.

Thank you for sharing your expertise on this topic. I am a grad student working toward my MSW, and one of our assignments was to find a podcast to critique/review as an example of to-do’s and what not to-do’s for a future assignment where we make our own podcast.

I appreciate the thorough coverage of the many nuances that arise when we consider the effects that childhood trauma has on our adult relationships. You provided evidence-based information, shared the articles that you used for reference, and addressed the layers that affect us, as humans, working from the explanation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and moving forward from there to the behaviors that are expressed as a result of the abuse or trauma, all in terms that were easily understandable.

Your sound quality was on point. There was not a touch of background noise, your tonality was genuine, and you came through as approachable during the entirety of the episode. I do not have a lot of spare time, but I will make more time to listen to more of the episodes that you have on this list.

Thank you for doing the work.

Sincerely,

Another human hoping to make a difference.

[clairejevron]

I had a very loving mother; however my father was violent, aggressive, verbal and mentally abusive to all of us. He tried to kill my mother a few times. I developed an eating disorder at 16 years of age and confidence issues. I left home just after I turned 18 and fell straight into abusive relationships. I these was the only way of relating to a guy. For an additional 13 years I suffered violence, rape and emotional abuse. Finally something flipped like a switch, I had enough and sold up my house and left. Single mother to my lovely son. I finally put myself through university but then realised this was part of the mental abuse from my family- having a degree made me less of an outsider to my family more accepted. I m now in my late 40s, no friends, no husband…I don’t know how to socialise in fact I m not keen on people at all. I prefer animals and hiding away at home. The damage is now starting to come to the surface.

[pamwatkins]

Coming upon a heritage, value and worthiness, to be made, wholly

[juliesmith]

I only trust myself more than others i suffered so much neglect and abuse as a kid i shut down and stll am now its complex post traumatic stress disorder i dont have feelings i dont want to know me all of what you said applys to me been through therapy i felt like i was taking my younger self to councling and feel that i didnt trust enough to get any benifit even

[katherinemnusa]

I’m so happy to find this video…this morning I was sucidal over problems of getting my medical information transferred to a spine pain center I am in spine pain and my Dr won’t give me pills for pain, so off to emergency for a shot and hopefully give me some pain pills and now I have a mental health advocate3rd 1:07:01 visit to emergency in 2 weeks

[brixandblooms]

I know someone that saw his mother physically abused several times ad a child. I believe th a t qualifies as trauma.

[essc]

Excuse me how can i do to make understand my girlfriend she has past trauma and the past trauma people have nightmare dreams with evils ets thanks ?

[williamsauer]

Scatter-brain, talks a lot but doesn’t say much, all over the place, frustrating.

[crazyrdgen]

Got damn get to the point of the video lady

[Cheater]

Hard to listen, Too Much blah blah blah...